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The Known World · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  If you want to read, I think one of the best fiction books of
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  the twenty first century. Edward P. Jones wrote a book called The Known
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  World, which I believe won the Pulitzer Prize, and the primary narrator of
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  that book, the protagonist that we follow most frequently, was a free black
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  man who owned slaves, and so slavery is complicated. American history is often
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  complicated. The idea that you could develop a skill during slavery that later benefited
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  you and your family is not remotely controversial. There are tons of stories of this